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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

Henrik Ibsen

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance

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